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Saturday, July 19, 2014

Russia has been escalating its war in Ukraine for weeks. The urgency to win turned to recklessness.

President Putin has been recklessly escalating the crisis in eastern Ukraine since he was embarrassed and outmaneuvered by the Ukrainian president three weeks ago. Allowing a passenger jet to be shot down is the act of an increasingly desperate man.

The Kremlin ordered tanks, heavy weapons and Russian fighters to pour over the border stoking up the crisis until tragedy struck. We should have seen it coming; on Wednesday morning the front page of Foreign Policy magazine had a headline that should have sent shockwaves through the geopolitical landscape: Russia Is Firing Missiles At Ukraine.

This should have been huge news. How could things in Ukraine have deteriorated to the point where Putin was now engaged in such a reckless act of aggression? Of course, it was huge news... but for only a few hours. Quickly this headline was buried under the news that another Malaysian airlines flight was missing, and evidence is steadily growing that either Russian-backed separatists or Russia itself may have fired the missile that brought it down.

Wow, like serious, wow. So much for, we are not involved in any way from Russia. Bringing down a passenger jet has just focused the attention of the world into an area where attention has not been wanted.

Meanwhile, the tinfoil hat idiot commentators on KiwiBlog go on about false-flags and various other conspiracy theories. It's like they are in a completely different reality, a invented one because they can't cope with the fact that there are evil crazy dudes in the world.